Abby the Hasbara Slayer : RT TV ‘s meteoric young on-air commentator, Alyona Minkovsky , left the network in late July, to take a position at Huffington Post’s new real-time web niche, HuffPost Live . While at RT TV , Minkovsky’s interviews were edgy and provocative. Her interviewing skills combined with what appeared to be a thirst for knowledge about news that seldom or never gets covered by the likes of Rachel Maddow or Ed Schultz, for instance. Compared to Alyona, Rachel was more like FOX than like progressive. Since her move to HuffPost Live , it has been almost painful to watch how the new show seems to have sucked the life and soul out of a brilliant young news person. I guess HuffPost could do that to almost anyone, though. I stopped watching. On her last show before exiting into Arianna’s fief in the Borg, Alyona interviewed Firedoglake ‘s Jane Hamsher and the Guardian ‘s Glenn Greenwald. I praised her fine work up to that point in her career, as did Kevin Gosz